Track-walker&#39;s implement.



PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908.

IJ.A.BLAUGH. TRACK WALKERS IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION EIEED APR. 10, 1905.

Jam. 56624610 7 nventor I I Attorneys I JOHN A. BLAUOH, OF ANNVILLE,PENNSYLVANIA.

TRAQK-WALKERS IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 18, 1908.

Application filed April 10, 1905. Serial No. 254,886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. BLAUon, a citizen of the United States,residing at Annville, in the county of Lebanon and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Track-VValkers Implement,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to implements for the use of track walkers andother operatives of a like class, and has for its object to improve theconstruction and increase the efliciency of implements of thischaracter, and combine in one all the various tools usually required incaring for and making minor repairs upon railway tracks.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature ofthe invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novelfeatures of construction as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andin which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters,is illustrated the preferred form of embodiment of the invention capableof carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood thatthe invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes inthe shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may beresorted to without departing from the principle of the invention orsacrificing any of its advantages.

In the drawings thus employed :Figure 1 is a perspective view of theimproved implement. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are enlarged perspective views ofthe several parts disconnected.

The improved implement comprises a bar 10 having a claw 11 at one endsuitable for extracting railway spikes, and with a threaded stud 12 atthe other end, and with the bar next to the stud in other form thanround, preferably square and tapered, as represented at 13. Detachablydisposed upon the irregular portion 13 is a hammer head 14, the latterhaving an aperture corresponding to the ortion 13.

ounted by a threaded aperture upon the threaded stud 12 is a wrenchmember 15, the wrench member thus bearing upon the hammer head andserving as a means for holding the same in position. The wrench member v15 comprises a substantially circular nut having a centralscrew-threaded opening pro or tioned to engage upon the threaded stu 12,and with diametrically disposed parallel jaws outstanding laterallytherefrom and defining awork receiving opening having parallel sides andextending to the nut and registering with the screw-threaded opening.

The wrench will correspond to the nuts of the clamp bolts by which therail joints are secured, and if required a plurality of wrench membershaving different spread of the jaws may be provided with each bar, sothe device may be readily adapted to different sizes of nuts. Thus atrack walker with one of the improved implements, and a number of theextra wrench members to correspond to the different sizes of nutsemployed 'upon or in connection with the track, will be in po sition toadjust the different portions of the track, such as tightening the clampbolts of the rail joints, the nuts of switches, frogs, and crossings, orto replace broken or loose spikes, or to perform any or all of thevarious duties which come Within his province, and without the necessityfor carrying a large and cumbersome assortment of tools or implements.

The bar together with its attachments will preferably be of tool steelor the like, so that they can be formed comparatively light while at thesame time retaining the requisite strength.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A toolcomprising aflagelliform single piece handle having at one end a portionwhich is noncircular in transverse section and an adjacent shoulder andterminating in a threaded stud, a hammer head having a noncircularperforation which snugly receives the noncircular portion of the handle,the transverse thickness of the hammer head at the perforation beingsubstantially equal to the length of the noncircular portion of thehandle, and a nut screw threaded upon the stud and being in thicknesssubstantially equal to the length of the stud, said nut having atopposite sides parallel lugs with an intervening unobstructed spaceadapted to be used as a nut receptacle whereby the tool may be used as awrench, the longitudinal axis of the hammer when in position on thehandle being disposed at a right angle to the longitudinal axis my own,I have hereto afiixed my signature ghereof Wherekiy the said hamnllfrlfieadl 1may in the presence of tWo Witnesses. e used as a ever torotate t e an e to screw and unscrew the Wrench nut upon the JOHNBLAUOH' 5 handle and unseat and seat the nut against Witnesses:

the head. 7 WILL H. ERB,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as OHAs. L. MARKS.

